Katherine Booska

Katherine Booska is a PhD student in the United States field. She works on 20th-century American intellectual history, investigating confrontations and resonances between modernism, technology, faith, and the subject. Historical experiences of time and temporality are especially central to her thinking and writing. Her most recent work is about the intellectual history of Freudian group psychoanalysis in the United States. Her past work has included essays on T.S. Eliot, Catholic conservatism, and Christian Zionism. She is always interested in questions about textuality and the theory of history.

Katherine is an American Religions in a Global Context Fellow at Stanford. She is the Book Reviews Editor of UC Berkeley’s Journal of Right-Wing Studies. She co-founded the History Department’s Walter Benjamin Reading Group and now co-runs the Theodor Adorno Reading Group.